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Victorian glassworlds: glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880

Isobel Armstrong
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency (page 1)
  • PART I FACETS OF GLASS CULTURE: MAKING AND BREAKING GLASS
  • 1. Factory Tourism: Morphology of the 'Visit to a Glass Factory' (page 19)
  • 2. Robert Lucas Chance, Modern Glass Manufacturer: Fractures in the Glass Factory (page 37)
  • 3. Riot and the Grammar of Window-Breaking: The Chances, Wellington, Chartism (page 57)
  • 4. The Glassmakers' Eloquence: A Trade Union Journal, the Royal Commission 1868 (page 70)
  • Conclusion (page 89)
  • PART II PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS
  • 5. Reflections, Translucency, Aura, and Trace (page 95)
  • 6. Glassing London: Building Glass Culture, Real and Imagined (page 133)
  • 7. Politics of the Conservatory: Glasshouses, Republican and Populist (page 167)
  • 8. Mythmaking: Cinderella and her Glass Slipper at the Crystal Palace (page 204)
  • 9. Glass under Glass: Glassworld Fictions (page 222)
  • PART III LENS-MADE IMAGES: OPTICAL TOYS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS
  • 10. The Lens, Light, and the Virtual World (page 253)
  • 11. Dissolving and Resolving Views: From Magic Lantern to Telescope (page 272)
  • 12. Microscopic Space (page 317)
  • 13. Crystalphiles, Anamorphobics, and Stereoscopic Volume (page 329)
  • 14. Coda on Time: Fixing the Moving Image and Mobilizing on the Fixed Image—Memory, Repetition, and Working Through (page 346)
  • Conclusion: The End of Glass Culture—from Nineteenth-Century Modernity to Modernism (page 361)
  • Notes (page 363)
  • Bibliography (page 409)
  • Index (page 433)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
VR 38.1 (Spring. 2012): 226-227 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23646868
BM 152.1282 (Jan. 2010): 47 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40601488
JRBS 48.4 (Oct. 2009): 1018-1020 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27752664
MP 110.1 (August. 2012): 59-62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666602
VS 51.2 (Winter. 2009): 365-367 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20537425
CQ 37.4 (Dec. 2008): 446-450 http://www.jstor.org/stable/42966998
RES 60.245 (Jun. 2009): 505-507 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40267586
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780199205202 (hardcover)
  • 9780191607127 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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